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"The face of the operation is Briatore (referred to exclusively in the film by his colleagues and angry, chanting detractors as "Flavio"), an anthropomorphic radish who spends most of his time at QPR plotting to fire all of the managers."

At press time, Harbaugh had sent Michigan’s athletic department an envelope containing a heavily annotated seating chart, a list of the 63,000 seat views he had found unsatisfactory, and a glowing 70-page report on section 25, row 12, seat 9, which he claimed is “exactly what the great sport of football is all about.”

when it is down. I hope they don't try to make an example of our program to send a message to other big programs about over practicing student athletes. I would be really surprised if the penalty against UM will be anything greater than losing a scholarship or two. Unless there is much more to it then any of us would know? I'm hopping for the most favorable of outcomes. There is no sense in worrying about it!

I don't know. From what I read here the USC hearing didn't look too good for Trojan fans. Notable quotables:

But there were signs from the hearings that make it highly improbable U.S.C. football will leave this multimillion-dollar, four-year investigation with a wrist slap. The first and most glaring hint came from a hotel bellhop, who practically grunted while pushing an industrial luggage cart full of documents out of the meeting room. There were seven boxes on the cart, including a six-inch-thick binder labeled U.S.C. Response Volume 1.

Tom Yeager, a former chairman of the infractions committee, noted in a telephone interview last week that the inside joke among committee members was whether or not a case was a “one-box” case or a “two-box” case.

When that joke was relayed to David Price, the N.C.A.A.'s vice president for enforcement services, he said that U.S.C.'s case in front of the N.C.A.A. was the longest in his 11 years with the committee.

Basically, the hearing is secret but what you can glean from the information available doesn't look good. My money says that when USC is punished it will put Michigan's "violations" into much-needed perspective. Ours was definitely a "one-box" case, I think. Then again, both schools could be part of an effort by the NCAA to prove it has some new-found teeth.

There will be upscale housing, fluff jobs, loads of cash, luxury cars and Trojan girls armed with.. You get the point. If they can buy top classes every year and the heisman trophy, they can buy anything.